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Live ing with the individual mandate. i'm just as concerned about the employer mandate because it's clear to me that many employers will be dumping their employees into the exchanges. why provide health insurance if you can pay a $2,000 penalty that will cost you less. >> just as a quick follow up, congressman, i hear what you're saying. the question is throughout time since man kind began, nobody has found a way to cover preexisting conditions in a working insurance pool without mandating coverage for healthy people. i hear you say you want to repeal it and repeal the employer mandate,ing can...

Sustainable long term. a better question is to ask about the healthy and sick, and the risk pools are aggregated on a state by state basis. you need to know, what's the relative risk pool for each state. and in addition we should be asking, are the premiums going to be affordable? here's the headline i would have put on this story. the mix matters most. now, on to number two. representative mike rodgers leaving congress to host radio show. he has an awfully powerful position in washington. it's a republican controlled house. he's a former fbi agent and a very talented guy relative to his abili...

Great that vote? could you have envisioned these problems? >> well, any kind of maximum legislation that is large in its implications is going to face some challenges. there's no doubt about it. now do we all wish that this had gone more smoothly? the answer is obvious, yes. the states wish it would have for -- wherever there are state exchanges, the federal exchange, we wish that would have been better. those are all obvious thoughts we have today across the country. but what i can tell you is that states are working very hard to make the implications to the people back home the best they can...

Health care his hiv-postive diagnosis may have come to late to save his life. there is get covered twitter campaign with lady gauge ga and others. the congressional budget office says the risk pools need 40% of young people to pay for the care used by older, sicker people. president obama said initially that was doable. and they are lowering the bar saying it will all work out. analysts disagree. they see higher premiums or higher taxes to bail out insurance companies. >> this is not a simple political campaign the proponents are doing vote yes, vote no. that is very straightforward. this is a...

Don't know how to fix this thing. only 10% of the previously uninsured bought into obamacare. not the young people. he said, i don't know how to fix it. >> well, it's important for viewers to know that the risk pools that we're talking about are one mechanism to keep health insurance premiums low. that will lead to premium increases. one way to avoid that tr the high risk companies that hay low the federal government to come in and help the insurance companies. if you take those away, it raises the question about what will happen to premiums. so democrats will not like the idea of it. they're ...